2 new flare-ups within massive LA-area wildfire

LOS ANGELES - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Firefighters grappled with two new flare-ups within a huge wildfire north of Los Angeles but no new homes were threatened.

Incident Commander Mike Dietrich said Saturday that the fire jumped a closed section of the closed Angeles Crest Highway and burned about 500 new acres in the Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness Area. He said flames were within about five miles of the community of Juniper Hills and firefighters will make the area their primary focus into the night.

Dietrich said crews also were fending off new fire activity on the southeastern end of the fire and trying to keep the blaze from burning into Santa Anita Canyon and Chantry Flats north of Arcadia and Monrovia.

The fire has burned 242 square miles, destroyed 76 homes and left two firefighters dead.